Richard Parker: 51 books
Designing and Conducting Survey Research
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The industry standard guide, updated with new ideas and SPSS analysis techniques
Designing and Conducting Survey Research: A Comprehensive Guide Fourth Edition is the industry standard resource that covers all major components of the survey process, updated to include new data analysis techniques...
Passion in Philosophy
Essays in Honor of Alphonso Lingis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Among the first and foremost of American continental philosophers, Alphonso Lingis refines his own thought through a topic usually deemed unworthy of philosophical examination—passion. Lingis criticizes traditional scientific accounts of the emotions as dividing or disrupting our lives and argues...
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers...
Energy Sprawl Solutions
Balancing Global Developmand Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Over the next several decades, as human populations grow, the demand for energy will soar. But renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity. In Energy Sprawl Solutions, scientists Joseph M. Kiesecker and David Naugle...
Single Case Research in Schools
Practical Guidelines for School-Based Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Single Case Research in Schools addresses and examines the variety of cutting-edge issues in single case research (SCR) in educational settings. Featuring simple and practical techniques for aggregating data for evidence-based practices, the book delves into methods of selecting behaviors of interest...
by Richard Brown, Dr S R Parker, John Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
This book provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It comprises of three sections, which in turn address: the relation between industry and other sub-systems or institutions in society; the internal structure of industry and the roles people play within that structure; the...
What is Past is Prologue
Cost Accounting in the British Industrial Revolution, 1760-1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This volume, originally published in 1997, reports the findings of extensive archival and contextual research into the surviving accounting and business records of some 200 British Industrial Revolution enterprises. This study presents an overview of cost accounting and cost management practices,...
Innovation in China
Challenging the Global Science and Technology System
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
China is in the midst of transitioning from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by innovation and knowledge. This up-to-date analysis evaluates China's state-led approach to science and technology, and its successes and failures.
In recent decades, China has seen huge investments in...
Cognitive Self Change
How Offenders Experience the World and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This book draws on the latest literature to highlight a fundamental challenge in offender rehabilitation; it questions the ability of contemporary approaches to address this challenge, and proposes an alternative strategy of criminal justice that integrates control, opportunity, and autonomy.
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